It was in the way of a highway.
Lucky Find Cottage is ninety years old, and until 2023 it stood two miles from here, on ground that a highway expansion nearby needed. A house in that position usually comes down. This one was lifted whole instead, carried down the road, and set on the family's hobby farm — no longer beside that road at all.
"Moved in one piece" is meant literally, and it is the whole of the name: the lucky find was a house worth saving turning up in front of people willing to go to the trouble of saving it.
The restoration since has been the careful kind. The original layout and the hardwood floors are still here, and so is the original plan of the rooms. The work went into the parts of a ninety-year-old house that nobody wants to be authentic.
A whole house, not a room in one.
The cottage is yours for the length of your stay — the whole building, the porch, and the quiet that comes with being on a farm rather than a street.
- Two bedrooms, each with a queen bed
- Two twin beds in the loft, up the spiral stair
- 1 bath, and comfortable for six guests in all
- The original hardwood floors, kept through the move and the restoration
- Set on a working hobby farm, with the fields right outside
- Ten minutes from McGhee Tyson Airport — an easy arrival, even late
The full amenity list, house rules and current rates live on the Airbnb listing, which is where the booking happens.
Why 'Lucky Find'.
Moving a house is not the obvious choice. Demolition is cheaper, quicker, and nobody has to find anywhere for the house to go. Choosing the other option means somewhere to put it, permission to get it there, and a road wide enough to carry a whole building down.
All of that came together for this one, which is the short version of the name. The long version is the same story told more slowly, usually on the porch.
Hickory Hill Farm is about a mile up the road.
The cottage is not the only thing here. Hickory Hill Farm — the same family — is about a mile up the road, with fields, trails and a barn that books by the day for retreats, gatherings and reunions.
It is a separate booking on a separate site, so a note sent from this page would not reach them. Their own contact form is the way in.
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